Photo Courtesy of HBOJames Gandolfini, here in "The Sopranos," will star as another Jersey businessman in the upcoming HBO adaptation of "Eating With the Enemy: How I Waged Peace With North Korea From My BBQ Shack in Hackensack."

The book, co-written with Kurt Pitzer, follows Egan, the self-described high-school dropout and former drug addict who owns Cubby's in Hackensack, as he develops a friendship with a North Korean diplomat and becomes an unlikely spy and an even unlikelier peacemaker. From the publicity materials: "It’s as though Tony Soprano took a seat at the U.N. and tried to stop a nuclear war."

HBO has optioned the book with Gandolfini attached, but there's no air date set yet. Gandolfini will return to HBO in April in the film "Cinema Verite," a fictionalized account of the Loud family, the subject of a 1973 PBS documentary believed to be one of the earliest examples of reality television.